GREETINGS – Cynthia Hall, left, who was welcomed as the new executive director of the Osterville Historical Society in March, greets Kimberly Murray of Marstons Mills at the museum campus during the May 17 open house for Maritime Week.

Cynthia Hall, a former professional photographer, Nantucket resident and museum administrator in Washington, D.C., is the Osterville Historical Society and Museum’s new executive director.

On the job since March, Hall described her museum environs as a “great campus” that is host to Osterville and Cape history ashore and asea.

Besideshousing the original Herbert F. Crosby Boat Shop, a series of four buildings with boat models, tools, construction models, artifacts and replicas of the legendary Crosby catboats and Wianno racing sloops, the campus is also home to the 1824 Capt. Jonathan Parker House at Parker and West Bay roads; the 1720 Cammett House, restored to its original condition that also houses artifacts of the times such as Sandwich glass and period furniture, and a jelly house that Hall said was the precursor of the modern franchise strategy of doing business.

Hall confesses she isn’t a sailor, “but I love museums.” She worked in administration at the Dumbarton-Oaks museum, research library, gardens and art collection in Washington, D.C.

Her photography spanned 20 years in the employ of international corporations in addition to editorial work, a career she abandoned when the digital rage overtook film. She is on the board of the Sturgis Charter Public School.